An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.